I can't find any guidance or consistency in the data, so I thought I'd
let up a balloon here...
Should the name=* for a river include the word "River"? Is it
"name=Thames" or "name=River Thames"?
According to the wiki [1] we should only use "Thames" in this case. If
we consider "River Thames" to be the "full name" we can put that in
full_name or official_name.
The word "River" doesn't always precede the name: there are many
examples of XXX River (e.g. Hudson River in NYC). Because of this I
think we should put the "full name" somewhere.
An analgous situation occurs with administrative units such as cities,
boroughs etc. Should the NYC boundary be tagged with "name=New York" or
"name=New York City" or "name=City of New York"? In the UK, is it
"name=Maidstone" or "name=Maidstone Borough Council" or "name=Borough of
Maidstone"?
Colin
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only
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